PBS Western Reserve • At-A-Glance
Key: M=Monday; T=Tuesday; W=Wednesday; TH=Thursday; F=Friday; S=Saturday; SU=Sunday; M-F=Monday through Friday; PMT=preempted
Airtimes of one-time-only specials are indicated by day and date; ongoing series by day-of-week only. Dates that a series is preempted (PMT) are indicated in parentheses.
May 2026
Art and Antiques
Antiques Roadshow
8p M; 9p M (PMT 5/4); 1a T; 2a T (PMT 5/5); 2p M-F
The Best of the Joy of Painting
9a S (ends 5/9)
By the River
4:30p TH (ends 5/28)
Celebrating America 250: Made with Love
11:30a S 5/30
Celebrity Antiques Roadtrip
5p S (PMT 5/23-5/30)
Craft in America
8a S (PMT 5/30); 4p W (PMT 5/27)
The Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins
9a S (begins 5/16) (PMT 5/30)
Painting and Travel with Roger and Sarah Bansemer
9:30a S (PMT 5/30)
This Moment in America: Artists in the Heartland
10:30p F 5/22; 3:30a S 5/23
What’s the Story, Wishbone?
9p TH 5/28
Biography
American Masters, Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
9p F 5/1; 2:30p SU 5/3
American Masters, W. E. B. Du Bois: Rebel with a Cause
9p T 5/19; 2a W 5/20
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
10p M 5/11; 3a T 5/12; 9p S 5/16; 1a SU 5/17
Facing the Laughter: Minnie Pearl
4:30p SU 5/10
In Their Own Words: Princess Diana
2a F 5/29
Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story
3p W 5/20
Rob Reiner: The Director
9p T 5/12; 2a W 5/13; 8p SU 5/17; 1a M 5/18
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour
3a S 5/2
Children’s Programming
Alma’s Way
12:30p M-F
Arthur
6a M-F; 6:30a SU & S
Carl the Collector
8:30a M-F (PMT 5/28)
Cyberchase
8a SU
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
9a M-F
Donkey Hodie
11a M-F
Elinor Wonders Why
Noon M-F (PMT 5/11)
Lyla in the Loop
8a M-F
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
6a SU & S
Molly of Denali
1p M-F
Odd Squad
6:30a M-F
Phoebe & Jay
9:30a M-F
Rosie’s Rules
11:30a M-F
SciGirls
8:30a SU
Sesame Street
10a M-F
Weather Hunters
7:30a SU-S
Wild Kratts
7a SU-S
Work It Out Wombats!
10:30a M-F (PMT 5/1)
Wowsabout
10:30a F 5/1; noon M 5/11; 1:30p W 5/20; 8:30a TH 5/28
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
1:30p M-F (PMT 5/20)
Cooking
America’s Heartland
4p TH
America’s Home Cooking: Flavors of the Fourth
9:30a S 5/30
America’s Test Kitchen
4p S (PMT 5/30)
America’s Test Kitchen Celebrates 25 Years
2p S 5/2
Baking with Julia
3:30p S (PMT 5/30)
Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
3:30p F
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3p M
Cook’s Country
4:30p F
The Farmer and the Foodie
3p S (PMT 5/30)
The Key Ingredient with Sheri Castle
3p F
Lucky Chow
4:30p M
Milk Street’s My Family Recipe
11a S (PMT 5/30)
My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
3:30p M
New Scandinavian Cooking
4p F
No Passport Required
5a SU (ends 5/24)
Pati’s Mexican Table
10a S (PMT 5/30)
Sara’s Weeknight Meals
10:30a S (PMT 5/30)
Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
4:30p S (PMT 5/30)
Wild Foods
4p M
Drama
Call the Midwife
8p SU (ends 5/10); 1a M (ends 5/11); 5p F (ends 5/15)
Daniel Deronda
9p S (ends 5/2); 1a SU (ends 5/3)
Hope Street
7p SU (PMT 5/31); 5p M (PMT 5/4)
Masterpiece, The Count of Monte Cristo
10p SU (ends 5/10); 3a M (ends 5/11); 10p TH (ends 5/14); 3a F (ends 5/15)
Masterpiece, Downton Abbey
Noon-2p SU 5/3; noon-4p SU 5/10; 10p SU (begins 5/17) (PMT 5/24); 3a M 5/18; 11p SU 5/24; 2:30a M 5/25
Masterpiece, Grantchester
5p T
Masterpiece, MaryLand
9p SU (begins 5/3) (ends 5/17); 2a M (begins 5/4) (ends 5/18); 5p TH (begins 5/7) (ends 5/21)
Midsomer Murders
9p TH (ends 5/21); 2a F (ends 5/22)
Northanger Abbey
Noon SU 5/17; 9p S 5/23; 1a SU 5/24
Our Favorite Things About Grantchester
8p SU 5/31
The Puzzle Lady
8p TH; 1a F (begins 5/1)
Sister Boniface Mysteries
5p W (PMT 5/27); 8p S (PMT 5/30); midnight SU (PMT 5/31)
Solving the Puzzles of the Marlow Murder Club
1p S 5/30
Health and Wellness
Classical Stretch: By Essentrics
5:30a S
Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr
5a S
The Healing
4p SU 5/3; 1p S 5/9
Heal Your Gut, Sharpen Your Mind with Steven Gundry, MD
8a S 5/30; 12:30a SU 5/31
How Are We Today?
12:30a F (begins 5/15)
History
After Ike — A Journey That Changed America
2p SU 5/17; 1p S 5/23
Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
5p TH (begins 5/28)
American Experience, Seabiscuit
9p T 5/26; 2a W 5/27
The American Revolution
9p M 5/4 & T 5/5; 2a T 5/5 & W 5/6
Built to Last: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota
2p S 5/23
Edward & Wallis: The Bahamas Scandals
5p SU 5/17; 10p TH 5/21; 3a F 5/22
Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster
1p S 5/2
Fighting for Lincoln: The Wide Awakes
11p SU 5/10
Finding Your Roots
8p T (PMT 5/26); 1a W (PMT 5/27)
From That Small Island: The Story of the Irish
5a SU (begins 5/31)
History Detectives
4a M (PMT 5/18); 4:30a M 5/18
History with David Rubenstein
8:30p F; 1:30a S (PMT 5/9 & 5/16); 1a S 5/16
Hitler’s Olympics
10p M 5/18; 3a T 5/19
The King Who Fooled Hitler
11p SU 5/3; 4p SU 5/17
Marauder Men: In Their Own Words
5-6:30p S 5/23
Memoirs of World War II
6:30p S 5/23
Pearl Harbor — Into the Arizona
10p M 5/25; 3a T 5/26
Remember Pearl Harbor
4:30p SU 5/24
Secrets of the Dead
10p W 5/27; 3a TH 5/28
Shinmachi: Stronger Than a Tsunami
3p W 5/27
Veterans of America — Our Heroes in Uniform
2:30-3:30p SU 5/24; 2a M 5/25
WW2 Women on the Frontline
Noon-2:30p SU 5/24
Waal River Crossing: 1944
3:30p SU 5/24; 3a W 5/27
We’ll Meet Again
5a M (PMT 5/18)
Women of World War II: More Untold Stories
2:30p S 5/30; 9a SU 5/31
Home and Garden
Ask This Old House
Noon S (PMT 5/30); 10:30a SU (PMT 5/31); 3:30p T
Home Diagnosis
11a SU (PMT 5/31)
J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
3p TH
MotorWeek
12:30p S (PMT 5/30); 11:30a SU (PMT 5/31); 4:30p T
This Old House
11:30a S (PMT 5/30); 10a SU (PMT 5/31); 3p T
Vintage Vessels
4p T
Music and Performance
All New Rock, Pop and Doo Wop
3p SU 5/31
American Masters, Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
9p F 5/1; 2:30p SU 5/3
Austin City Limits
11p S (PMT 5/30); 3a SU (PMT 5/31)
Barbra Streisand: Timeless — Live in Concert
1p SU 5/31
Barry Bostwick Presents Classical Rewind
5:30p S 5/30; 2:30a SU 5/31
Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden
9p S 5/30
Celtic Thunder Odyssey
4p S 5/30; 6:30p SU 5/31
Chopin Saved My Life
5p SU 5/3; 9p S 5/9; 1a SU 5/10
Great Performances
9p F (begins 5/8); 1:30a S 5/9 & 5/16; 2a S 5/23 & 5/30
Great Performances, Now Hear This
9p F 5/1; 2a S 5/2
Joe Bonamassa: The Spirit of Rory Live from Cork
11p S 5/30; 5p SU 5/31
Lawrence Welk: Precious Memories
7p S 5/30
The Lawrence Welk Show
7p S (PMT 5/30)
National Memorial Day Concert 2026
8p & 9:30p SU 5/24; 12:30a M 5/25
Pavarotti 90: The Man Who Moved the World
11a SU 5/31
The Remember Balloons
5p F 5/22
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour
3a S 5/2
Song of the Mountains
4a SU
The Songwriters
10p S (ends 5/16); 2a SU (ends 5/17)
Studio C Sessions
10:30p S (PMT 5/30); 2:30a SU (PMT 5/31)
Nature
America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston
6p S (PMT 5/23-5/30)
Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure
8p W 5/6; 1a TH 5/7; 9a SU 5/10
Nature
8p W (PMT 5/6); 1a TH (PMT 5/7); 9a SU (PMT 5/10 & 5/31)
Shared Planet
10p W (ends 5/20); 3a TH (ends 5/21)
News and Public Affairs
Akron State of the City Address 2026
8p T 5/26; 1a & 4p W 5/27
Amanpour and Company
11p M-F (PMT 5/1; 5/8, 5/15 & 5/26); 11:30p F 5/1, 5/8 & 5/15; 11:30p T 5/26 4a T-S
BBC News
6p & 6:30p M-F; midnight T-S (PMT 5/2; 5/9 & 5/16)
The Chavis Chronicles
12:30a T
Compass Points from PBS News
6p SU (PMT 5/31)
Democracy Now!
5a T-F
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
6:30p SU (PMT 5/31)
Forum 360
5 & 5:30p M 5/4
Frontline, The President vs. the Fed
10p T 5/12; 3a W 5/13
Frontline, The War Cabinet
10p T 5/26
Independent Lens, Natchez
11:30p SU 5/17
PBS News Hour
7p M-F
Roadtrip Nation
12:30a F (ends 5/8)
The State of Ohio
12:30a S
Story in the Public Square
12:30a W
Washington Week with The Atlantic
8p F; 1a S (PMT 5/16)
The Whitney Reynolds Show
12:30a M (PMT 5/18-5/25)
Regional Productions
After Ike — A Journey That Changed America
2p SU 5/17; 1p S 5/23
Akron State of the City Address 2026
8p T 5/26; 1a & 4p W 5/27
Around Akron with Blue Green
1p S 5/16; 1:30p SU 5/17; 5:30a M 5/18; 2:30p S 5/23
Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster
1p S 5/2
Forum 360
5 & 5:30p M 5/4
Marauder Men: In Their Own Words
5-6:30p S 5/23
Memoirs of World War II
6:30p S 5/23
The Remember Balloons
5p F 5/22
Ringling, Akron & the ‘Blue Heaven’ Circuit
5p F 5/29
Studio C Sessions
10:30p S (PMT 5/30); 2:30a SU (PMT 5/31)
Veterans of America — Our Heroes in Uniform
2:30-3:30p SU 5/24; 2a M 5/25
Travel and Adventure
America’s Heartland
4p TH
Around Akron with Blue Green
1p S 5/16; 1:30p SU 5/17; 5:30a M 5/18; 2:30p S 5/23
Britain by the Book
5p W 5/27; 3a F 5/29
Culture Quest
3p W (ends 5/13)
From That Small Island: The Story of the Irish
5a SU (begins 5/31)
Hidden Louisiana
2p S 5/16
Maryland by Air
2p S 5/9
Rick Steves’ Art of Europe: Beauty Through the Ages
10:30a & 9:30p SU 5/31
Rick Steves’ Best of Paris
3p SU 5/17
Trolley Park: Great Lakes
1:30p S 5/16
You Are Cordially Invited
Midnight M 5/4-5/11
